Highly controversial points of view and positions here. Hotly contested and heavily debated. Would a wrong decision by the courts be enough to cause civil war, or just more controversy and debates? I suppose that there are probably a ton more choices that I could have offered up but will leave those up to the other category. I kind of have a general idea of how this will go, but I am curious to see it in action within our community here.

The name of this thread is a bit misleading: for a few seconds, I thought that it meant that some members of the U.S. Supreme Court consider marrying each other. My bad.

Anyway, in France, we're waiting the decision of our National Assembly on this subject.I can't wait for gay marriage to be voted, so there won't be any more manifestation on the Sundays, just when I want to go buy some comics at my comics store but get blocked on my way by right-wing or left-wing protesters. Get a life, protesters!

It is kind of a farce to have it go to the Supreme Court given you have 9 people whose job it is to interpret the law based on the U.S. Constitution, and yet there are 4 judges who will almost always vote the liberal agenda and 4 judges who will almost always vote the conservative agenda so it comes to the one judge in the middle who I guess will vote on his own agenda.

But as previously mentioned, government has no business sticking it's nose into who marries who. It is pure and simple one's own personal freedom....................... like many other things now that I think of it.

“The Guide says there is an art to flying or rather a knack. The knack lies in learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.”

Gay couples should have the right to get married in all 50 states. And everywhere else in the world, too.

+1. What's with this idea of letting each state decide? Are we really frightened to lose some of our workforce to other countries if they don't like the (nearly) uniform arrangement this country might have in the future?

Edited by Dayvenkirq - March 26 2013 at 17:09

"People tell you life is short. ... No, it's not. Life is long. Especially if you make the wrong decisions." - Chris Rock

I agree that the government has no business sticking it's nose into what goes on in the bedroom of two (or more) consenting adults but the government does have a responsibility/(obligation?) to either protect people from being discriminated against or allowing majority rule to prevent people from behaving in ways that the "majority" finds to be morally reprehensible. Filing a tax return, a married man and woman have the right to file married filing jointly or married filing separately. Same-sex couples have to file as single. A married man and woman can jointly adopt a child. With same-sex couples only one or the other can adopt a child, not both. A married man and woman can have health insurance for the other. A same-sex couple only can if the employer or insurance company allows for it. (Granted I believe more and more do allow it). I know that there are other legal issues that are out there that currently exist as well.

There are multiple points of view, but essentially you have the liberal side that says love is love let anyone marry who wants to marry. Then there is the conservative side that says that God says that marriage is between a man and a woman and homosexuality is a morally reprehensible sin. And then there are all points in between.

Then there is the conservative side that says that God says that marriage is between a man and a woman and homosexuality is a morally reprehensible sin.

"The hypothesis of God, for instance, gives an
incomparably absolute opportunity to understand everything and know
absolutely nothing. Give man an extremely simplified system of the world and
explain every phenomenon away on the basis of that system. An approach like
that doesn't require any knowledge. Just a few memorized formulas pins
so-called intuition and so-called common sense."

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